DUBLIN, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Navidea Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE MKT: NAVB), a biopharmaceutical company focused on precision diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals, today announced that the abstract reviewing a meta-analysis of Phase 3 clinical trial for Intraoperative lymphatic mapping (ILM) of lymph nodes in breast cancer, compared to standard of care techniques has been published in conjunction with the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). The abstract entitled, “The novel receptor targeted (CD206) 99mTc-labeled tilmanocept versus the currently employed Tc99m-sulfur colloid in intraoperative lymphatic mapping (ILM) on key performance metrics in breast cancer” is published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology Online 2012; e21066.